Evolvable Machines: Theory & Practice

✍ Scribed by Yutaka Inoue, Takahiro Tohge, Hitoshi Iba (auth.), Nadia Nedjah, Luiza de Macedo Mourelle (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 161
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Methods for the artificial evolution of active components, such as programs and hardware, are rapidly developing branches of adaptive computation and adaptive engineering. "Evolvable Machines" reports innovative and significant progress in automatic and evolutionary methodology applied to machine design. This book presents theoretical as well as practical chapters concentrating on Evolvable Robots, Evolvable Hardware Synthesis, as well as Evolvable Design.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Learning for Cooperative Transportation by Autonomous Humanoid Robots....Pages 3-20
Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot....Pages 21-41
Evolution of Khepera Robotic Controllers with Hierarchical Genetic Programming Techniques....Pages 43-71
Evolving Controllers for Miniature Robots....Pages 73-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Evolutionary Synthesis of Synchronous Finite State Machines....Pages 103-127
Automating the Hierarchical Synthesis of MEMS Using Evolutionary Approaches....Pages 129-149
An Evolutionary Approach to Multi-FPGAs System Synthesis....Pages 151-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Evolutionary Computation and Parallel Processing Applied to the Design of Multilayer Perceptrons....Pages 181-203
Evolvable Fuzzy Hardware for Real-time Embedded Control in Packet Switching....Pages 205-227
Improving Multi Expression Programming: An Ascending Trail from Sea-Level Even-3-Parity Problem to Alpine Even-18-Parity Problem....Pages 229-256

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Automation and Robotics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Complexity